Cocaine Blues tells the story of a man named Willy Lee, who shoots his unfaithful girlfriend dead when he was high on whiskey and cocaine. Willy is caught by a sheriff, and sentenced to 99-years in the San Quentin Pen. The song ends with Willy’s plea: “Come all you hypes and listen unto me, drink all you want but leave that cocaine be!” Cash famously sang a version of the song at his 1968 Folsom Prison concert, and released it as a single in 1971 on the album At Folsom Prison.